Paul Hendrickson, Author . Knopf $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40461-0
"Nothing is ever escaped," is the woeful reminder Hendrickson imparts in this magisterial group biography-cum-social history, a powerful, unsettling, and beautifully told account of Mississippi's still painful past. Hendrickson, author...
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Paul Hendrickson, Author . Abrams/Library of Congress $35 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4348-3
Taken from 1939 to 1943 under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, these 175 "lost" photos feature shots by Russell Lee, Andreas Feininger and Marion Post Wolcott, using the then-revolutionary...
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Paul Hendrickson, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-78117-2
While painting this psychological portrait, this NBA finalist shows the effects of the Vietnam policymaker's decisions on the lives of ordinary people. (Nov.)
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Paul Hendrickson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (297p) ISBN 978-0-394-57729-6
The best of Marion Post Wolcott's (1910-1990) photographs of the Deep South during the Depression rank with those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, her colleagues in the Farm Security Administration. Unlike them, Wolcott (who also ventured to...
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Paul Hendrickson, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (414p) ISBN 978-0-679-42761-2
In 1983, Washington Post reporter Hendrickson (Looking for the Light) saw Robert S. McNamara on TV and was moved to write a series of articles about the man who served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam War. Those pieces became the...
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Paul Hendrickson. Knopf, $30 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4162-6
NBCC–award winner Hendrickson (Sons of Mississippi) offers an admirably absorbing, important, and moving interpretation of Hemingway's ambitions, passions, and tragedies during the last 27 years of his life. When Hemingway purchased the sleek...
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Paul Hendrickson. Knopf, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-385-35365-6
Conflagrations physical and emotional illuminate America’s greatest architect in this melodramatic biography. National Book Critics Circle Award winner Hendrickson (Hemingway’s Boat) tries to humanize the famously arrogant Frank Lloyd Wright by...
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Paul Hendrickson. Knopf, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-32113-3
Biographer Hendrickson (Plagued by Fire) offers an intimate exploration of the life and military career of his father, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot Joe Hendrickson (1918–2003). Probing his family’s history of violence, the author searches for the root...
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